Napa’s ‘Big Fat Gay Weddg(s)’ | The Vortex

Contents:

• BILL WHE AND BRYAN EURE’S BIG, FAT GAY WEDDG
• BIG FAT GAY INDIAN WEDDG? SAME-SEX UPLE FIGHT FOR RIGHT TO MARRY
• NAPA’S ‘BIG FAT GAY WEDDG(S)’
• MY BIG FAT GAY WEDDG
• ‘MY BIG GAY ITALIAN WEDDG’ RETURNS: HERE’S HOW TO SEE THE SHOW
• MY BIG FAT AMERIN GYPSY WEDDG: GAY IS NOT OK, INCT IS
• MY SON’S BIG FAT GAY JEWISH WEDDG ISRAEL
• MY BIG GAY ITALIAN WEDDG
• BILL WHE AND BRYAN EURE’S BIG, FAT GAY WEDDG

BILL WHE AND BRYAN EURE’S BIG, FAT GAY WEDDG

If there’s any doubt where Barbara Walters stands on the issue of gay marriage, she put to rt on Sunday eveng at the well-publicized weddg ceremony of Bill Whe and Bryan Eure at The Four Seasons rtrant. “Y I do, ” she said, when asked if she thought gay marriage should be legal all 50 stat.

“I thk this is perhaps the most important remag civil rights battle this untry has to face, ” Boi observed of the ongog polil and cultural stggle over gay marriage. Also on hand for the packed party were Karola Kurkova, Brian Atwood, Cy Council speaker Christe Qun — who said she first met Whe when he had a noise plat about the r bar unr his apartment — Joel Gray, Jack Rud, Jon and Lizzie Tisch, Gayle Kg, former New York ernor David Paterson and former New York Cy mayor David Dks.

BIG FAT GAY INDIAN WEDDG? SAME-SEX UPLE FIGHT FOR RIGHT TO MARRY

Notably, Ana is the first bri to have a gay weddg. NEW DELHI (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Swept up a whirlwd romance after meetg at a Bollywood party Mumbai, Saattvic and Grav Bhatti dreamed of celebratg their love wh a typil big, fat Indian years on, remas a marriag are illegal India spe the Supreme Court scrappg a lonial-era ban on gay sex 2018 - a cisn that LGBT+ Indians say they had hoped would pave the way for more equal rights, cludg marriage and is why Saattvic, who go by one name, asked the Delhi high urt to allow him to marry his boyiend - one of six petns ma by LGBT+ upl September 2020 to legalise same-sex marriage, wh a fal hearg due on Tuday. ”If the uple w their se, India would bee the send place Asia after Taiwan 2019 to regnise gay Indians have ma signifint stris sce the 2018 gay sex lg, om their portrayal on televisn to more reprentatn polics and clive rporate many say they still fear g out largely nservative India where discrimatn and abe prevent LGBT+ people om accsg jobs, healthre, tn and hog.

Homophobia remas rife India, said Bhatti, a classil Indian dancer who joed the ll om London where he had travelled for a performance.

“I’m more effemate than Saattvic and ’s a b more obv (that I am gay).

NAPA’S ‘BIG FAT GAY WEDDG(S)’

”Fal arguments between petners and the feral ernment will beg on Tuday, a step before the se began when LGBT+ activists challenged the ernment over the right to marry unr the Hdu Marriage Act, which legalis marriage between “any two Hd”, whout specifyg their petners joed wh siar arguments about other Indian laws, cludg the Special Marriage Act that provis for civil marriage regardls of ’s ernment has been largely silent on gay rights.

What we have disvered through people here Napa is this rather disturbg piece of rmatn: Tim Bch's Merage Rort and Spa (where this Catholic nference happens each year) also hosts homosexual weddgs. Any of the other 51 weeks a year, after fahful Catholics have all gone back home, the rort be very un-Catholic and plays host to gay weddgs and receptns. The rort be very un-Catholic and plays host to gay weddgs and receptns.

I told her I was marryg my gay partner, and another gay iend had remend the Merage. However, I put her on speakerphone (wh our crew of Adrian and Jake listeng) and asked her pot blank, aga, posg as a gay man wantg a weddg at the Merage next year, if there was anyone special I need to speak wh about a gay weddg. But once this nference is over and all those Catholics "formed" to fight the evil the culture hop on their plan and go home, Merage self rorts to operatg wh the evil — hostg gay weddgs.

MY BIG FAT GAY WEDDG

Where you do fd is on the webs of gay weddg planners here Northern California, who post all the photos and rmatn themselv, hypg up the bety and elegance of this very splendid settg.

‘MY BIG GAY ITALIAN WEDDG’ RETURNS: HERE’S HOW TO SEE THE SHOW

You jt have to dig around those bs' web pag, like the gay weddg photography pany Lily Rose, which proudly displays the announcement of s work: "gay weddgs at the Merage Rort and Spa. Of urse, only a handful of weddg planng pani do exclively homosexual weddgs, but that's not the pot. Apparently, part of what Bch lls "support of the lol muny" clus hostg gay weddgs.

How n this rort, owned by the Bch fay through their PHG rporatn, which sponsors 800 fahful Catholics once a year — wh Mass virtually every hour and Eucharistic procsns throughout the grounds — turn around and host gay weddgs after the fahful Catholics have gone home? It's not, Do you host gay weddgs here? The Rt Belt Theater Company prents: MY BIG FAT GAY WEDDING, The MilAbout this EventMY BIG FAT GAY WEDDING tells the story of Steven, a middle aged event planner, and his attempt to fally plan his OWN perfect weddg to his Fiancé, Adam.

MY BIG FAT AMERIN GYPSY WEDDG: GAY IS NOT OK, INCT IS

What’s the difference between homosexuals and heterosexuals? In matters outsi the bedroom, Amerin culture and law are at last acknowledgg that there is Anzuoni / RtersWhat if gays were straight?

The qutn is absurd—gays are fed as not straight, right?

Here is how California’s Supreme Court put a key passage s now-famo May 15 lg that gay upl California mt be granted the right to marry, wh no qualifitns or phemisms:The re substantive rights clu, most fundamentally, the opportuny of an dividual to tablish—wh the person wh whom the dividual has chosen to share his or her life—an officially regnized and protected fay posssg mutual rights and rponsibili and entled to the same rpect and digny acrd a unn tradnally signated as ’s notable here is the startg pot of the discsn: an “dividual.

MY SON’S BIG FAT GAY JEWISH WEDDG ISRAEL

He or she exists as a person before he or she exists as straight or gay.

And so the distctn between gay and straight is sentially abolished.

MY BIG GAY ITALIAN WEDDG

The lg, and the language , reprents the removal of the premise of the last generatn favor of a premise accepted as a given by the premise ed to be that homosexualy was an activy, that gays were people who chose to behave badly; or, if they weren’t choosg to behave badly, were nohels sufferg om a form of sickns or, the words of the Vatin, an “objective disorr.

” And so the qutn of whether to perm the acts and activi of such disorred dividuals was a legimate area of legislatn and when gays are seen as the same as straights—as dividuals; as normal, well-adjted, human dividuals—the argument chang altogether.

BILL WHE AND BRYAN EURE’S BIG, FAT GAY WEDDG

It emerged as younger generatns me out earlier and earlier, and as their peers me to see gay people as fellows and siblgs, rather than as nizens of some distant and alien subculture.

It happened as lbian upl beme parents and as gay soldiers challenged the discrimatn agast them. And this is how many gay people of the next generatn see . Born to straight fai and reared to see homosexualy as a form of difference, not disabily, they naturally wonr why they would be exclud om the tegral stutn of their own fai’ liv and history.

And the next generatn see themselv as people first and gay a different era, I reached that ncln through more pa and fear and self-loathg than my 20-somethg fellow homosexuals do today. And that group, I sudnly realized, was the heterosexuals who knew what to do, who guid the gay uple and our iends to the ruals and r of fay. The strange, bewilrg emotns of the moment, the ke and receptn, the distracted children and weepg mothers, the morng’s butterfli and the night’s dnkenns: this was not a gay marriage; was a our fai stantly and for the first time sce our early childhood beme not jt stutns which we were clud, but stutns that we too owned and perpetuated.